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23 videos

  1. Roman Space Telescope: Falcon Heavy Launch and Path to L2

    Published: 18 Oct 2026

    A live conversation with two Goddard team members about the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which launched on a Falcon Heavy on August 30 and is traveling to Sun-Earth L2.

    View mission: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
    Launch site
    Kennedy Space Center
    Outcome
    In progress

  2. Roman Space Telescope Launches on Falcon Heavy: NASA Briefing

    Published: 30 Aug 2026

    NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center at 7:26 a.m.

    View mission: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
    Launch site
    Kennedy Space Center LC-39A
    Outcome
    In progress

  3. Roman Space Telescope Launch on Falcon Heavy From Pad 39A

    Published: 30 Aug 2026

    NASA's live broadcast followed the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, set for 7:26 a.m.

    View mission: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
    Launch site
    Kennedy Space Center LC-39A
    Outcome
    In progress

  4. Falcon Heavy Launches the Roman Space Telescope Toward L2

    Published: 30 Aug 2026

    Everyday Astronaut hosted live coverage of Falcon Heavy launching NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center.

    View mission: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
    Launch site
    Kennedy Space Center LC-39A
    Outcome
    Success

  5. Roman Space Telescope Prelaunch Briefing: Falcon Heavy, Weather

    Published: 29 Aug 2026

    NASA and SpaceX hold the prelaunch news conference for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, targeting a Falcon Heavy liftoff from pad 39A on August 30 at 7:26 a.m.

    View mission: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
    Launch site
    Kennedy Space Center LC-39A

  6. Roman Space Telescope Science Briefing Ahead of Launch

    Published: 29 Aug 2026

    NASA's science news conference, held a day before the scheduled Aug.

    View mission: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

  7. Roman Space Telescope: Hubble-Sized Mirror, 200 Times the View

    Published: 28 Aug 2026

    The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a NASA flagship infrared survey telescope with a Hubble-sized 2.4 m mirror and a 300-megapixel wide field instrument.

    View mission: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

  8. Webb and Rubin Compared: Deep Fields Versus the Whole Southern Sky

    Published: 30 Jun 2025

    A comparison of the James Webb Space Telescope and the Vera Rubin Observatory, which released its first images the week the video was made.

    Vehicle
    James Webb Space Telescope

  9. How Webb Works: Infrared Design, Build and Ariane 5 Launch

    Mission: 2021Published: 20 Dec 2024

    An animated explainer of how space telescopes work, comparing Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope.

    View mission: James Webb Space Telescope (2021)
    Launch site
    Guiana Space Center, French Guiana
    Outcome
    In progress

  10. Euclid Launch on Falcon 9: ESA’s Dark Universe Telescope Lifts Off

    Mission: 2023Published: 1 Jul 2023

    SpaceX launched ESA's Euclid space telescope on a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida at 11:12 a.m.

    View mission: Euclid (2023)
    Vehicle
    Falcon 9
    Launch site
    Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
    Outcome
    Success

  11. Webb’s Ariane 5 Launch from Kourou, Tracked Stage by Stage

    Mission: 2021Published: 25 Dec 2021

    Coverage of the James Webb Space Telescope lifting off on an Ariane 5 from the Guiana Space Centre on December 25, 2021, at 12:20 GMT.

    View mission: James Webb Space Telescope (2021)
    Vehicle
    Ariane 5
    Launch site
    Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana (ELA-3)

  12. Webb’s Christmas Day Launch on Ariane 5: Countdown to Separation

    Mission: 2021Published: 25 Dec 2021

    Official NASA and ESA broadcast of the James Webb Space Telescope launch on an Ariane 5 from French Guiana on 25 December 2021.

    View mission: James Webb Space Telescope (2021)
    Vehicle
    Ariane 5
    Launch site
    Europe's Spaceport, Kourou, French Guiana

  13. Ariane 5 VA256 Launches Webb Telescope From Kourou, 25 Dec 2021

    Mission: 2021Published: 25 Dec 2021

    An Ariane 5 (flight VA256) launched the James Webb Space Telescope from ELA 3 at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou on 25 December 2021 at 12:20 UTC.

    View mission: James Webb Space Telescope (2021)
    Vehicle
    Ariane 5, James Webb Space Telescope
    Launch site
    Ariane Launch Complex No. 3 (ELA 3), Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana

  14. Hubble Servicing Mission: How Endeavour’s Crew Fixed the Mirror

    Mission: 1993Published: 31 Oct 2021

    A documentary on the first Hubble servicing mission, flown on Space Shuttle Endeavour, which set out to correct the telescope's flawed mirror and replace failing hardware.

    View mission: Hubble Servicing Mission 1 (1993)
    Outcome
    Success

  15. Hubble Servicing Mission 4: From Cancellation to Final Repair

    Published: 11 May 2021

    Servicing Mission 4 was the fifth and final servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope.

    View mission: Hubble Servicing Mission 4
    Outcome
    Success

  16. Hubble’s Flawed Mirror: How COSTAR Fixed It After Launch

    Published: 24 Apr 2021

    Space Shuttle Discovery launched the Hubble telescope on 24 April 1990, but its 2.5 meter main mirror had a small flaw that made images blurry.

    View mission: Hubble Space Telescope
    Outcome
    Partial success

  17. STS-109: Columbia’s Hubble Upgrade and the Leaking Spacesuit

    Published: 1 Mar 2021

    NASA's Servicing Mission 3B, flown on space shuttle Columbia as STS-109, was the fourth visit to the Hubble Space Telescope and lasted 12 days with five spacewalks.

    View mission: STS-109 Hubble Servicing Mission 3B
    Outcome
    Success

  18. STS-82: How Discovery’s Crew Gave Hubble Infrared Vision

    Mission: 1997Published: 16 Feb 2021

    Servicing Mission 2 to the Hubble Space Telescope launched on Feb.

    View mission: STS-82 Hubble Servicing Mission 2 (1997)
    Outcome
    Success

  19. Hubble Space Telescope: Launch, Mirror Flaw and Servicing Fixes

    Published: 16 Apr 2020

    A NASA Goddard documentary on the Hubble Space Telescope, from its shuttle launch and troubled deployment to the mirror flaw and the servicing missions that followed.

    View mission: Hubble Space Telescope
    Outcome
    Success

  20. Hubble Space Telescope: The Flawed Mirror and Costar Repair

    Published: 1 Aug 2018

    This documentary traces how the Hubble Space Telescope was built after the Challenger loss, launched on the shuttle Discovery, and found to have a flawed mirror.

    View mission: Hubble Space Telescope
    Outcome
    Success

  21. Webb Telescope Launch and Deployment Sequence on Ariane 5

    Mission: 2021Published: 24 Jan 2017

    An animation from Northrop Grumman depicts the planned launch of the James Webb Space Telescope on an Ariane 5 and its deployment on the way to Sun-Earth L2, 1 million miles from Earth.

    View mission: James Webb Space Telescope (2021)
    Vehicle
    Ariane 5

  22. Fixing Hubble: Cepollina on Five Servicing Missions and COSTAR

    Published: 14 May 2015

    Frank Cepollina of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center gives a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum lecture on the five Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions.

    View mission: Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions

  23. Hubble Servicing Mission 4: Final Shuttle Repair Plans Explained

    Published: 18 Jan 2009

    A preview of Servicing Mission 4, the fifth and final shuttle visit to the Hubble Space Telescope.

    View mission: Hubble Servicing Mission 4